Episode 110 -- Project 1933, Part IX: November 1 - November 30

In Bed With The Right

Adrian Daub and Moira Donegan

Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Society & Culture

4.8 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

For this episode of In Bed with the Right, Adrian and Moira return to the year 1933. They continue the story of how Hitler seized power, what it did to society, what it felt like to live through it, and -- as always -- what role gender and sexuality played in events. Reminder: We're going month by month for these episodes. This ninth installment covers November 1 to November 30, 1933. It's about democracy after democracy. On November 12, the Nazis held an election, the second after Hitler had become chancellor, but the first since the Enabling Laws had fully established a dictatorship. This episode is about this bizarre exercise, about how average Germans experienced it, and about how émigrés reacted to a country that was fusing more and more with its ruling regime.

One quick content note: Adrian moved a little quickly through the election results about 25 minutes in. The first set of numbers he's talking about are the ones for the parliamentary election (where basically only Nazis could be voted for, but some non-Nazis were on the ballot). The second set of numbers are about the referendum about leaving the league of nations. Our apologies if this didn't become clear!

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Adrian Dom.
0:08.5	And I'm Moira Don again.
0:10.0	Whether we like it or not, we're in bed with the right.
0:14.0	So, Adrian, today we are back with another installment of our beloved Project 1933.
0:20.0	And also, you have a cold.
0:22.6	Yeah, so get used to the sultry tones of my lower octave. I mean, I sound very different
0:29.0	because, yeah, I am stuffed up horrible. But I think that's okay because I think this is not
0:35.6	going to be one of our longer ones. And I was trying to sort of figure out why that is. I think one is that like we've been going over the parallels and people have been commenting on social media on how uncanny it is, no scary it is. This is one, I think, where people are going to notice a lot of differences. Not to say that there aren't points of comparison the things where we can learn or a thing or two,
0:57.2	but today is about democracy after democracy.
0:58.4	Today is about elections.
1:01.8	And if you look at the elections that the United States just had,
1:06.2	and the one that it appears to be ready to have in 2026,
1:09.8	you can sort of tell the differences much more so than the parallels,
1:11.7	which also makes this a little bit shorter.
1:22.2	This is, at least going into it, my expectation was that this would be kind of more of a history lesson than something that is just going to make everyone go like, oh, shit, literally that happened last week.
1:30.6	Yeah, you know, today we are talking about the elections on November 12th, 1933 in Germany. And we're recording now on November 30th, 2025, about two weeks out from some off-year elections in which the opposition
1:38.2	party did very well, right? And the vibe, as we're recording, and there's, you know, there's about 12 months left for things to change.
1:47.8	But the vibe as we're recording is that the Republicans seem to expect Democratic victories in the 26 midterms right now, right?
1:56.0	And that's, you know, TBD, we do not know yet.
1:59.3	But that is something that would not have been possible in Germany in 1933,
2:05.5	both because the Nazis have really decimated the opposition parties with just actual violence,
2:11.5	but also because they've really created this election system in which there's no real stakes and there's no possibility of a Nazi loss.
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